John A. Giannetti Jr.

The Inter-County Connector will be built along a southerly route that state and local officials have backed for decades, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. announced yesterday, a decision that minimizes the number of homes that will be razed but which federal...

He shuffles into his seat near the back of the House of Delegates chamber, a quiet, eccentric man, occasionally rising to explain a bill in his gravelly, barely comprehensible voice. Low-profile, he may appear, but Del. Joseph F. Vallario Jr., chairman...

Maryland's highest court struck down the state's newly drawn legislative map yesterday, leaving candidates for all 188 General Assembly seats without clear districts in which to campaign for a primary election just three months away. The Court of Appeals...

Four staff members at the state's Cheltenham juvenile detention center have been charged with assaulting a 17-year-old youth who says he was held down and repeatedly kicked and punched in the chest and face, police said yesterday. The incident occurred...

District 7 32 of 32 precincts - 100% x-Diane DeCarlo 7,407 80% Jerry Hersl 1,843 20% -------------------- District 8 31 of 31 precincts - 100% x-Katherine Klausmeier 10,254 85% Raymond C. Shiflet 1,779 15% -------------------- District 11 36 of 36...

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said yesterday he expects Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to make substantial "adjustments" to the administration's poorly received slot machine legislation, including possible changes in the way the gambling profits...

State Sen. John A. Giannetti Jr., who has a 25-year-old shotgun at home and a framed portrait behind his desk of himself with President Bill Clinton at the signing of the Gun Control Act of 2000, won't be re-elected. That is what advocates on both...

Members of the General Assembly's ethics committee admonished Sen. John A. Giannetti Jr. yesterday not to sponsor legislation involving his employer's clients after disclosures revealed that he introduced half a dozen bills related to businesses his law...

A proposed state ban on assault weapons appears doomed this year in Annapolis -- unless the sponsor pursues an unusual parliamentary maneuver. The bill faces a governor who opposes it and a Senate committee poised to reject it by a single vote. Failure...

State Sen. John A. Giannetti Jr. thought he had a winning combination for a fund-raiser: bring a few slot machines into Laurel Park, along with track owner Joseph A. De Francis and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, to demonstrate the fun of...

The owner of Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park has proposed amendments to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s slot machines bill that would give the tracks the unfettered right to serve alcohol until 4 a.m. on weekends -- two hours later than bars close in...